METRO VANCOUVER — Houweling's Tomatoes of Delta has completed an independent non-GMO certification in part because some customers thought their hothouse tomatoes were "too perfect" to be natural.
Houweling's is just the third food producer in B.C. to certify that its products are free of genetically modified organisms with the Non-GMO Project, and is the first food grower in the province to complete the process.
"People have been asking us through our website and email whether we are GMO, especially in the past year," said Houweling's owner Casey Houweling. "This is a way of reassuring people."
Hothouse grown tomatoes are not subjected to the weather and variable environmental conditions the way that field-grown tomatoes are, so there is little variation between the fruits, he said. But it wasn't until a California customer wondered bluntly whether Houweling's tomatoes weren't a little too uniform to be natural that Houweling realized that he had a problem.
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